Team

MI.MU is driven by a small but dedicated team that each specialise in a different area of glove technology, design and performance. Click on the images above or scroll down for further details. You can follow the team on social media for individual MI.MU updates, including gigs and performances, conferences, design and hacking.

Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap is a British eclectic, eccentric and innovative recording artist. Her talent spans from the craft of songwriting to elaborate live multi-instrumental improvisations with electronics, building on a unique voice, classical training and unusual interest and command of technology which is fully explored within and outside of her musical projects.

Self-produced, independent, engaged, she blurs the boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. Heap’s last album, Ellipse, earned her a Grammy and Ivor Novello award. Her most recent release of Sparks is her fifth and most ambitious album to date and includes the first glove song, Me the Machine.

Tom Mitchell

Tom Mitchell is a computer scientist, researcher and electronic musician lecturing computer music at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His research covers many aspects of adaptive sound design and interactive music performance / composition.

Tom enjoys working with artists and has a genuine passion for developing technology that enables new modes of interaction and expression. He has many years of professional software development experience creating highly complex audio and mobile applications.

Kelly Snook

Kelly Snook is a researcher, engineer, musician, and maker based in London but transplanted from the US, where she spent nearly two decades as a NASA researcher.

After leaving NASA, she worked for several years as Imogen Heap’s musical assistant, and now freelances as an independent data sonification researcher and music producer at her recording studio, It’s Not Rocket Science Studios. She holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Seb Madgwick

Seb Madgwick is the director of x-io Technologies, making wireless IMUs and custom electronics. He is also finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Bristol this year, just in time to dive in to some serious glove development! His background is in systems engineering and robotics but he now spends more time collaborating with artists and creative technologists.

Hannah Perner-Wilson

She is developing new styles of building electronics that emphasize materiality and process, and publishes her research online to support her vision for “electronic diversity” or increasingly personalized technologies.

She holds a BA in Industrial Design from the University for Art and Industrial Design, Linz and an MA in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and forms the collective KOBAKANT with Mika Satomi.

Adam Stark

Adam Stark is a researcher, computer scientist and musician based in London. In 2011 he completed his Ph.D. at Queen Mary University of London on digital signal processing and audio analysis in live musical performances and installations. He subsequently co-founded the arts-technology education studio Codasign.

He is interested in changing the way music is composed and performed through new technologies.
He can be found working with artist Di Mainstone on the Human Harp, using audio analysis with artists in live performances or playing with London-based six piece band Rumour Cubes.

Rachel Freire

Rachel is an artist and designer with an conceptual fashion label specialising in leather and stretch materials.Her work focuses on intricate details and using tactile objects to create narratives.

She works across disciplines in all aspects of design which concern clothing and the body. She has a BA in Design for Performance from Central St. Martins and has most recently been creating specialist leather and gloves for Marvel Studios, lending the futuristic aspects of her design work to the heroines and villianesses of the big screen. She now feeds all this into the world of musical gloves.

Chagall Van Den Berg

Chagall van den Berg is a vocalist, songwriter and electronic music producer from Amsterdam. In 2013 she moved to London to be closer to the invention of modern electronica where everyone with a bedroom can become a producer.

Always having been interested in bringing electronic music to the stage in an intuitive way, she now writes, records and performs her work with MI.MU Gloves. In 2015 she created her glove song and live video ‘Sappho Song’.

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